Bowie
#1,733 for girls in 2025, 117 births · #1,227 for boys in 2025, 164 births
Given to boys 63.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 237 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,235since 1920
Bowie over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,733 | 117 | #1,227 | 164 |
| 2024 | #1,997 | 98 | #1,211 | 167 |
| 2023 | #1,645 | 126 | #1,098 | 194 |
| 2022 | #1,844 | 110 | #1,093 | 198 |
| 2021 | #1,524 | 138 | #951 | 237 |
| 2020 | #1,752 | 114 | #1,119 | 176 |
| 2019 | #1,864 | 108 | #1,202 | 159 |
| 2018 | #1,799 | 113 | #984 | 210 |
| 2017 | #2,221 | 85 | #1,191 | 156 |
| 2016 | #2,426 | 76 | #1,329 | 134 |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 | #2,386 | 54 |
| 2014 | #4,657 | 30 | #2,256 | 59 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 | #4,131 | 24 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #2,730 | 44 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | — | #5,875 | 13 | |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,245 | 9 | |
| 2002 | — | #8,456 | 7 | |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
| 2000 | — | #9,112 | 6 | |
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| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bowie! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bowie is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#742 · 1 in 6,213
- Tennessee#823 · 1 in 6,033
- Pennsylvania#932 · 1 in 8,461
- Washington#955 · 1 in 7,407
- North Carolina#1,118 · 1 in 10,395
Best ever in a state: #405 in Idaho, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #742 | 36 | 1 in 6,213 |
| Tennessee | #823 | 6 | 1 in 6,033 |
| Pennsylvania | #932 | 7 | 1 in 8,461 |
| Washington | #955 | 5 | 1 in 7,407 |
| North Carolina | #1,118 | 5 | 1 in 10,395 |
| New York | #1,428 | 7 | 1 in 14,285 |
| Texas | #1,631 | 9 | 1 in 20,580 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bowie
- 16 spots since 2024 (#1,211 → #1,227)
- 108 spots since 2020 (#1,119 → #1,227)
- 1,159 spots since 2015 (#2,386 → #1,227)
- Biggest jump: 207 spots in 2018 (#1,191 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 218 spots in 2019 (#984 → #1,202)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2021 at #951 (237 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2018–2021
- Highest: 1 in 7,382 boys born in 2021 were named Bowie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,415 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 50.8% of all boys named Bowie (1,136) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2013, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 5 | #4,286 (1920) | #4,286 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 15 | #3,941 (1975) | #4,248 |
| 1980s | 31 | #4,968 (1987) | #5,905 |
| 1990s | 19 | #6,992 (1995) | #7,856 |
| 2000s | 133 | #4,044 (2008) | #6,580 |
| 2010s | 896 | #984 (2018) | #2,358 |
| 2020s | 1,136 | #951 (2021) | #1,117 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bowie in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 23,316 of them was named Bowie, which outranked 87.2% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,412Lexington77
- #2,412Skai77
- #2,412Stefany77
- #2,426Bowie76
- #2,426Avyanna76
- #2,426Brelynn76
- #2,426Clarke76
- #2,446Auria75
- #2,446Aziyah75
- #2,446Berlin75
Tied with 19 names at #2,426; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 14,162 of them was named Bowie, which outranked 90.6% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,326Aayden135
- #1,326Diesel135
- #1,326Lyndon135
- #1,329Bowie134
- #1,329Baron134
- #1,329Cedar134
- #1,329Ever134
- #1,339Aamir133
- #1,339Archie133
- #1,339Axle133
Tied with 9 names at #1,329; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.